FUNDING EUROPE-WIDE SPORTS PROJECTS – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The main way to get funding for European sports projects is to apply for European Commission funding. Applications for the 2013 round of fund-
ing closed on 17 July 2012 but you will soon be able to submit applications for the brand new budget in 2014. How this new budget will operate is still being confirmed
and the Sport and Recreation Alliance is currently having conversations with the EC on how it can best be managed. Keep up with developments
by visiting the EC’s website:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport or contact David Foster:
dfoster@sportandrecreation.org.uk at the Sport and Recreation Alliance.
The initial EU funding pro- gramme for sport will be worth an estimated £30m
recently been explored and now con- firmed as a dedicated funding stream. When the Lisbon Treaty came into
force in December 2009, it wasn’t just all about attempting to make the EU more democratic, transparent and efficient. It also meant for the first time that
specific provisions could be made to sup- port, co-ordinate and supplement sport policy actions taken by EU member states. In the last couple of years, the EC has been exploring how it can provide specific EU grants to fund a series of pi- lot projects – or ‘preparatory actions’. Organisations have already begun to
benefit from this pot of funding, mak- ing applications around a wide range of particular themes or priorities set by the European Commission – including match-fixing, governance and equality. This has been a ‘preparatory’ phase for
the EU to work out how it can best pro- vide policy support to the field of sport. In other words, they’ve been laying the foundations. After dipping its toe in the
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ORGANISATION: The Sport and Recreation Alliance NAME OF PROJECT: Better Boards Stronger Sport TIME PERIOD: 1 January 2012 – 30 June 2013 FUNDING: €125,775
CASE STUDY
The Better Boards, Stronger Sport project has been designed to promote innovative approaches to strengthen the way in which sport is organised and run in Europe. It’s based on the premise that sports organisations must be empowered to take
responsibility for setting the agenda and improving governance without regulation or compliance being dictated to them by outside regulators. The project supports the principle that real improvement has to be driven by the sports
movement itself because regulation will only achieve compliance and not drive improvement. OUTCOMES: The project has resulted in consultation and consensus across Europe on the key features of what an effective sports board should be. A toolkit has been developed which includes vital guidance, advice and best practice to help organisations excel.
water, the EU has now confirmed it will commit itself to setting aside a long- term and dedicated funding system for sport for all member countries. It has also announced that 2014 will mark the first time it will be administered and money from the fund distributed.
GETTING IT RIGHT So how should this funding be spent, can your organisation benefit, and if so, how should you apply? Funding applications are open to all
public bodies and not-for-profit organ- isations that operate in a country which
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